The recent release of a report has reignited calls for a national sex offender registry after it was revealed how most sex offenders are finding their victims.
Since the report’s release on Tuesday, La Trobe MP Jason Wood has proposed Australia adopt a similar disclosure model to that of the UK.
Britain’s model allows parents to access information about a person if they have frequent contact with their child or if the guardian believes that person poses a threat to their child’s safety.
The report was actioned by the Australian Institute of Criminology and funded by the Coalition government following calls for an online sex offender register which would make personal information such as names, images and postcodes of sex offenders available to residents in the area.
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